2021 Annual Academic Convention-Speakers

Dr. Huang He-Feng is a reproductive medicine specialist, Academician of CNAS, a Fellow Honoris Causa of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of UK, Academician of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World, and a member of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. She holds the titles of Chief Physician, Professor, and PhD Supervisor in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Currently, she serves as the Dean of the School of Medicine, the Dean of the International School of Medicine, and the Honorary Dean of the Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, and the Director of the Key Laboratory in Reproductive Genetics of the Ministry of Education. She is the first in the world to propose the hypothesis of "gamete origin of diseases" and has conducted groundbreaking research on the intergenerational and transgenerational genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of paternal/maternal originated diseases. She has established international cooperative health life trajectory cohorts for multicenter cluster randomized interventions in childhood obesity spanning pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, infancy, and birth cohorts for assisted reproductive technologies. By integrating innovations in reproductive and genetic technologies with clinical translations, she aims to reduce the risk of chronic diseases from the very beginning of life and prevent the transmission of genetic birth defects. She has made numerous achievements, including the National Award for the Advancement of Science and Technology that she received in 2010 and 2021, respectively, the highest honor bestowed upon researchers and scientists in China. She has published more than 350 papers and trained more than 200 postgraduate students.

Prof. GUAN Xiaohong, the member of Chinese Academy of Science and the Fellow of IEEE, received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1993. He was a senior consulting engineer with Pacific Gas and Electric from 1993 to 1995. He visited the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University from 1999 to 2000. From 1985 to 1988 and since 1995 he has been with Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, and has been the Cheung Kong Professor of Systems Engineering since 1999, and Dean of Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering since 2008. From 2001 he has also been with the Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and severed the Head of Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, 2003-2008. Professor Guan is also with Department of Music AI and Information Science, Central Conservatory of Music.

Dr. XU Xinzhong is a Professor of Finance at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. Prior to joining Guanghua in 2002, he had held various positions in the UK as Chair Professor of Finance at Lancaster University Management School, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Business School and Economist at Bank of England. Professor Xu has led a number of major research projects funded by National Science Foundation of China. He has published in leading international and national academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Research Journal (《经济研究》) and Management World (《管理世界》）.